Dovedale Cottages

DOVEDALE COTTAGES, 2-11, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272408
Date first listed:
06-Sept-1994
List Entry Name:
Dovedale Cottages
Statutory Address:
DOVEDALE COTTAGES, 2-11, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272408
Date first listed:
06-Sept-1994
List Entry Name:
Dovedale Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
DOVEDALE COTTAGES, 2-11, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DOVEDALE COTTAGES, 2-11, BATTERSEA PARK ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Wandsworth (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 27577 76439

Details

BATTERSEA PARK ROAD TQ 2776 (North side) 1207- /7/10029 Nos.2-11 (Consecutive) Dovedale Cottages II GV Almshouses, now arranged as flats. 1841 on behalf of Mrs Lightfoot and her daughter, Mary, for'persons in reduced circumstances professing godliness'. White brick in Flemish bond with cement dressings and slate roofs. Two storeys. Three-part symmetrical composition with projecting centre section of three windows originally containing chapel and taller than its surrounds. Entrance to No. 6 in this range is set under a four-centred Tudor arch, other openings are flat arched. Two entrances to each lower wing on street facade with single light windows on first-floor over, those nearest ends in dormers. The other windows are three-light casements set in narrow mullions forming an alternating pattern to the first floor, except that first-floor windows of centre block have mullions and a transom; the window over centre entrance is an oriel, above which is a gable inset with roundel depicting a dove bearing an olive branch. Apart from the central gable over the former chapel, the roof is gabled to the returns and has boxed eaves to the front wall. Lintel band to ground floor. Sill band to first floor. The fire wall of centre range has its own parapet and coping above that of side ranges, where the gables also finish in a parapet with coping. There are two stacks to each low side wing: one to the peak of the parapet, the other near the fire wall of the centre range. The stacks to the latter range are set in its parapet end walls. This range forms the centrepiece of the group of almshouses, which form a distinguished composition alongside the former St Stephen's church (q.v.)

Listing NGR: TQ2757776439

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Legacy System number:
449366
Legacy System:
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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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